As shown below, the overwhelming majority of new mobile malware in the second quarter was for Android. Most interesting is the emergence of trojans which send text messages to premium-rate numbers, generating revenues for the malware distributors.

The remaining malware are basically mobile implementations of malware themes for PCs, such as bots and fake antivirus.

The report also notes the rise of hacktivism and its impact not just on high-profile sites but on users, as denial of service attacks are a common mode of operation for LulzSec, Anonymous and their ilk.

There is also data on the spam markets, specifically on the prices for bulk lists of e-mail addresses. Below are the prices for 1 million addresses for the specified countries:

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Larry Seltzer has been writing software for and English about computers ever sincemuch to his own amazementhe graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1983.
He was one of the authors of NPL and NPL-R, fourth-generation languages for microcomputers by the now-defunct DeskTop Software Corporation. (Larry is sad to find See Full Bio

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